Annette Buckley- The Ever Changing Colours Of The Sea

Posted on 18th May 09 by Contributor | 0

Annette Buckley - The Ever Changing Colours Of The Sea

Why let another singer/songwriter into your heart? You probably have all the Damiens, Paddies, Gemmas and Wainwrights, maybe fitted in a Rourke or Chester in recent months….what would someone have to do to earn the rights to your stereo? How about an album drenched in warm and wistful harmonies, heaven and a broken soul hiding in regret and remorse?

May I introduce Annette Buckley and her latest offering The Ever Changing Colours Of The Sea.

Opener Her Winter Coat is a two-minute piano journey which immediately transports the listener to a rural homestead in the middle of a blizzard. Next up, If You Follow, accompaniment from instrumental band Rest compliments vocals, giving a more developed feel. However Buckley‘s haunting voice leads the song away from anything conventional or easy listening.
Then we come to the first of two songs on the album that take Annette Buckley from disillusioned temptress of the Kate Bush mould with Honeysuckle, which is nothing short of glorious, a classic which deserves to be heard by all who have loved and lost, to a heartbreaking, vulnerable Tori Amos in Whirlwind, equally epic, voice echoing swooning strings that glide behind. “You never really knew me well at all/It was a whirlwind with you ”
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Lo fi sampling and programming appears on So Free, the kind of song you hear on Nip/Tuck as someone slashes their face with glass. As for Grey Love; “The love I have for you is so damn grey.” I’ll say no more.

Album to get lost in for days on end, to leave your head and heart in tatters? Found it…The Ever Changing Colours Of The Sea.

Rating: 8/10